Sample-book.



No. 722,283. PATENTED MAR. 10, 1903.

H. 0. S. GARLSON.

SAMPLE BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 15, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

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HUGO O. S. CARLSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SAMPLE-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,283, dated March 10, 1903.

Application filed November 15, 1902. Serial No. 131,471. (No model.)

To whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HUGO O. S. CARLSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sample-Books, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in a device to be used for bindingleaves together in book form, and while it is more especially intended to be employed as a sample-book or a binder for leaves on which are mounted and displayed samples of cloth and printed data, such as is used by merchants in taking and recording orders, yet it is applicable for binding together in book form sheets to be used for other purposes; and it consists in certain peculiarities of the construction, novel arrangement, and operation of the various parts thereof, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and specifically claimed.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a sample-book or leaf-binder which shall be simple and inexpensive in construction, strong, durable, and effective in operation, the parts of which shall be so arranged that any or all of the leaves may be readily removed and replaced by others.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention pertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe it, referring to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a samplebook or leaf-binder embodying my invention, showing one of the pintles partially withdrawn from one of the hinges which secures the covers to the back of the book. Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation of a portion of the book, showing one of the covers thereof removed and illustrating the clamp at the upper end of the book closed and the one at the lower end thereof open. Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of one of the clamps for the leaf-retaining rods, showing it open and a part of a few of said rods in position thereon. Fig. 4 is a view, partly in elevation and partly in section, of one of said clamps, showing it closed. Fig. 5 is a detached perspective view of portions of one of the rod-retaining clamps. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a portion of one of the leaves of the book, showing the binding strip or cloth thereon; and Fig. 7 is a fragmental view of a portion of one of the covers of the book and a part of one of its hinge straps or plates.

Like numerals of reference refer to corresponding parts throughout the different views of the drawings.

The numeral 10 represents the back of the book, which is preferably made of fiber and has secured at each of its upper and lower corners, by means of screws 11 or otherwise, a metal plate 12, which is provided at its free or outer end with a cylindrical socket 13, to form bearings for the ends of the pintles l l, which pass through loops 15, formed by the metal plates 16, which are secured to the covers 17 of the book, which covers are preferably made of fiber. The plates 16 are made of metal and secured to the outer and inner surfaces of each of the covers 17, along their edges adjacent to the back 10, and are bent to form the loops 15, as is clearly shown in Fig. 7, through which loops the pintles 14 are passed. The upper and lower ends of each of the plates 16 is cut away, as at 18, to allow the socket-pieces 13 to rest on the ends of the looped portion 15, as will be readily understood by reference to Fig. 1 of the drawings.

Secured transversely of the back 10 and to its inner surface at each end thereof is a leafrod-retaining clamp, which comprises an angular piece 19, having at one of its ends a lip 20 and an opening 21, and at its other end bearings 22 for a pintle 23, used to pivotally secure the angular piece 24, which has at one of its ends bearings 25, to the piece 19. The piece or member 24: of the clamp is somewhat larger and wider than the member 19 and has at its end opposite that on which the bearings 25 are located an inturned lip 26, which, together with the flange 27, overlaps the lip 20 and flange 28 on the member 19, as will be clearly seen by reference to the up er end of Fig. 2 of the drawings. The free end of the member 24 is provided with an opening 29 for a set-screw 30, which engages the opening 21 in the member 19 and firmly secures them together.

Each of the leaves 31 of the book is provided at its edge with a binding-strip 32 of cloth or other suitable material, which is pasted or otherwise attached to each surface of the leaf,

so as to form a loop 33, through which the leaf-retaining rods 34 are passed.

From the foregoing, and by reference to the drawings, it will be seen and clearly understood that when the rod-retaining clamps are secured in position on the inner surface of the back and at each end thereof the adjacent edges of said clamps will be open, while their opposite or outside edges are closed by the flanges 27 and 28 of the clamp members, thus allowing the rods 34 to extend in parallelism from one clamp to the other, yet preventing them havinglongitudinal movement. By placing one of the rods 34 in each of the loops 33 of the binding-strips 32 on the leaves 31 and placing the ends of said rods on the members 19 of the retaining-clamps and then securing the members 24 in place by means of set-screws it is apparent that the leaves will be securely retained in position and may be turned on the rods 34, so as to display either side thereof. When it is desired to remove any of the sheets or leaves, the members 24: of the retaining-clamps may be unfastened and turned to a suitable position, so that the desired leaf may be extracted and a new one inserted in place thereof.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A sample-book comprising a back and a cover hinged to each side thereof, a clamp secured transversely to the inner surface of the back near one of its ends, said clamp consisting of two members having inturned flanges at their outer edges and hinged together at one of their ends and detachably connected at the other, a series of rods arranged longitudinally with the back and parallel with one another and located at one of their ends in the said clamp, means secured to the other end of the back to receive and retain the other ends of the said rods, and leaves or sheets having means to engage said rods, substantially as described.

2. A sample-book comprising a back and covers hinged thereto, a clamp secured transversely to the inner surface of the back near each end thereof, each of said clamps consisting of two members angular in cross-section and hinged together at one of their endsand detachably connected at the other, a series of rods arranged parallel with one another and having their ends located between the members of each of said clamps and leaves or sheets having loops at their edges to receive said rods, substantially as described.

HUGO O. S. CARLSON.

Witnesses:

CHAS. O. TILLMAN, A. GUSTAFSON. 

